August 28, 2013

Man of Steel II: General Zod Attacks Syria

President Obama aka General Zod is hiding behind the mask of Superman and these are his words: "To al-Assad, I say this: surrender within 24 hours, or watch this world suffer the consequences..." [Source of quote: IMDb - Man of Steel].

"As the Obama administration manufactures its “case” for military
aggression against Syria in the coming days or weeks, we want to
highlight an interview that Hillary did with Zeinab al-Saffar when we
were in Beirut earlier this summer; the interview is now available on Al
Mayadeen’s Web site, see here.
Hillary’s account of how the United States self-servingly demonizes
non-Western countries that get in its way seems highly applicable to the
current discussion—it hardly merits the label “debate”—about attacking
something in Syria, ostensibly because of claims that the Syrian
government used chemical weapons against civilians last week in Ghouta,
an eastern suburb of Damascus. The frame for such demonization, Hillary
notes, is inevitably driven by and bound up with

“the United States’ way of going to war. The United States doesn’t go to war, it says, to protect its interests. The
United States says it’s going to war to ‘liberate’ peoples—whether
they’re liberating people in Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq, and prospectively Iran. And
the way the American people is conditioned to accept it (and,
essentially, world opinion as well) is that American experts put out a
narrative about these various countries—whether it’s Cuba, Vietnam,
Iraq, or now Iran—they put out a narrative about how repressive that
society is, how illegitimate its government is in terms of its domestic
politics, and how irrational it is in its foreign policy. We’ve seen this in country after country that the United States has invaded or tried to invade to overthrow its government.”

Of course, no one anticipates that President Obama is about to order a U.S.-led invasion of Syria. But, since
Obama’s foolish declaration in August 2011 that Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad “must go,” the United States has been committed to the Syrian
government’s overthrow. And the demonization of Syria’s government as repressive, illegitimate, and irrational has proceeded apace,
exactly along the lines described by Hillary. Now the demonization
focuses on unsubstantiated allegations of the Syrian government’s use of
chemical weapons as a justification for the United States to use
military force against it—just as concocted claims about Saddam Husayn’s
weapons of mass destruction were central to building the case for
invading Iraq in 2003.

Make no mistake, U.S. military action against Syria will be fragrantly illegal
(not that President Obama’s senior advisors, most members of Congress,
or much of the American public will care). Nevertheless, the Obama
administration is gearing up for precisely such action—and for entirely
self-generated reasons. It was Obama who declared that Assad “must go.”It was Obama who declared that chemical weapons use was a “red line.”It
was Obama who put himself in a position where he can’t entertain the
possibility that Syrian oppositionists used chemical weapons, because
that would destroy his administration’s Syria policy. And because
Obama took these ill-considered and illegal positions, he must now use
American military power to preserve his “credibility.”